ernment of our country, should be abandoned or endangered. The vital amendment of lineal descent, which question had been inserted in the Constitution after it left the hands of our Found- ers, was pending exciting conditions. The transfer of the sovereign power of our organization from the Board of Management to the Continental Congress, as rep- resenting the people (the members) was yet under its experi- mental strain. You can therefore, imagine with what relief and exultation these leaders received the gracious reply of Mrs. Stev- enson that she would accept the nomination they had offered to her. She was elected with but a nominal opposition, and finally 26 LETITIA GREEN STEVENSON by the same unanimous vote that carried her into the same high office again and again and again. She was eminently fitted, as by a special Providence, for the responsibilities before her; born in Pennsylvania, of old Kentucky and Virginia lineage, and her mature years spent as a resident of the progressive, enthusiastic Empire State of the grand middle west, who could so readily as she heal the wounds of the civil war, and embrace in her loving soul the heart-sore South, and the exulting North, and seal that union which was a main reason for the organization of our Society. Her husband, the Vice-President of the United States, whose high character and wise statesmanship was known and recognized in every corner of the land, was devoted to her, and ready to up- hold all of her patriotic efforts. Mrs. Stevenson was a woman of classical education, a rare