France is now allied with your colonies, but Spain holds aloof.

She fears you and perhaps with reason.
Every country, if its people be healthy and vigorous, must ultimately be owned by those who live upon it." "Do you know this Alvarez ?" asked Henry.
"Yes, a man of imperious and violent temper, one who, with all his courage, does not recognize the new forces at work in the world.

He thinks that Spain is still the greatest of nations, and that the outposts of your race, who have reached the backwoods, are nothing.

It is we who travel in the great forests who recognize the strength of the plant that is yet so young and tender." The priest sighed again and a shade of emotion passed over his singularly fine face.
"Alvarez would be glad to commit the Spanish forces in America to the cause of your enemies," he resumed, "and he is bold enough to do any violent deed at this distance to achieve that end.

In fact, he is already allied with the renegade and the Indians against you and began war when he seized one of you.