Having organized by States, the next thing was to have a National Union.

In August of that year, the first National Sunday-School Assembly was held at Chautauqua Lake, near Buffalo, New York.

Many of the most earnest workers in the temperance Crusade, from different parts of the United States, and from the various denominations of Christians, were present, and the conviction was general that steps should at once be taken towards forming a National League, in order to make permanent the work that had already been done.
After much deliberation, a committee of organization was appointed, consisting of a woman from each State.

This committee issued a circular letter, asking the various Woman's Temperance Leagues to hold meetings, for the purpose of electing one woman from each Congressional district as a delegate to a National Convention, to be held in November, at Cleveland, Ohio.

A single paragraph from this circular will show the spirit that animated the call.
"It is hardly necessary to remind those who have worked so nobly in the grand temperance uprising that in union and organization are its success and permanence, and the consequent redemption of this land from the curse of intemperance.