For the most part Rand was wise.

Federal diatribes upon the Tripoli war, the Florida purchase, the quarrel with Spain, Santo Domingo, Neutral Trade, and Jefferson's leanings toward France left him cold.

This letter in the Gazette had not done so.

It had gone to the sources of things, analyzing with a coolness and naming with a propriety the more remarkable that it acknowledged, on certain sides, a community of thought with the party attacked.

The result was that, as in civil war, the quarrel, through understanding, was the more determined.