Help anyone?

My teacher assigned us each a document from an old DBQ and told us to analyze and share with the class. I don't really have an idea on anything that could fit it. >.<

Source: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (April 6, 1789)
"The most artful misrepresentations of the contents of these [XYZ Affair] papers were published yesterday, & produced such a shock on the republican mind, as has never been seen since our independence."

Okay so basically I said this was Jefferson complaining to Madison that he is not interpreting the XYZ Affair correctly. Is Jefferson basically saying that Madison used it to attack the republicans?