23. The event was followed by intense public excitement. The affair became of national, and then of international, importance. The Italian minister, Baron Fava, at Washington, entered his solemn protest against the killing of his countrymen, and the American Secretary of State communicated with King Humbert on the subject. The Italian societies in other American cities passed angry resolutions against the destruction of their fellow-countrymen by the mob; and the newspapers of the country teemed with discussions of the subject. Threats of war were heard between Italy and the United States; but the more thoughtful looked with confidence to the settlement of the question by peaceable means. 24. THE HISTORY OF OUR COUNTRY has thus been traced from the times of the aborigines to the present day. The story is done. The Republic has passed through stormy times, but has at last entered her second century in safety and peace. The clouds that were recently so black overhead have broken, and are sinking behind the horizon. The equality of all men before the law has been written with the iron pen of war in the Constitution of the Nation. The Union of the States has been consecrated anew by the blood of patriots and the tears of the lowly. The temple of freedom reared by our fathers still stands in undiminished glory. THE PAST HAS TAUGHT ITS LESSON; THE PRESENT HAS ITS DUTY; AND THE FUTURE ITS HOPE. REVIEW QUESTIONS.--PART VII. CHAPTER L. 1. Tell about the thirteenth amendment. 2. Trace the reconstruction measures of President Johnson's administration. 3. Give an account of the purchase of Alaska. 4. Tell about the Atlantic cable. CHAPTER LI. 5. Give an account of the adoption of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. 6. Detail the Alabama Claims controversy and tell how it was settled. 7. Tell about the great fires of 1871-72. 8. Outline the Indian troubles with the Modocs and the Sioux. 9. Give an account of the Credit Mobilier. 10. Tell about the Centennial exposition. 11. Give an account of the contested election of 1876, and how it was adjusted. CHAPTER LII. 12. Tell about the railroad strikes in the early part of President Hayes's administration. 13. Give an account of the troubles with the Nez Percé Indians. 14. Give the leading Congressional measures of these four years. 15. Tell about General Grant's tour around the world. CHAPTER LIII. 16. Give an account of the presidency and death of Garfield. 17. Outline the presidency of Arthur and the progress of applied science during his term of office. CHAPTER LIV. 18. State the general condition and trace the measures of Cleveland's administration. 19. Tell about the Charleston earthquake. 20. What great leaders of the Civil War died during these four years? CHAPTER LV. 21. Give an account of the election of President Harrison, and of his entrance upon office.