cluded from the ballot-box for no other reason than sex?" What
_shall_ we say to them? They ask us if the American Revolution
did not turn on this hinge, _No taxation without representation_.
Who can answer?

The advocates of suffrage in St. Louis made their attacks at once
in both Church[379] and State, and left no means of agitation
untried. There has never been an association in any State that
comprised so many able men and women who gave their best thoughts
to every phase of this question, and who did so grand a work,
until the unfortunate division in 1871, which seemed to chill the
enthusiasm of many friends of the movement.

In the winter of 1869 the association sent a large delegation of
ladies to the legislature with a petition containing about 2,000
signatures. A correspondent in _The Revolution_, February 6,
1869, said:

It will not be feminine to say, yet I fear I must say, the
women of Missouri have stormed their capitol, and if it is
not yet taken, the outworks are in our hands, and I believe
with a few more well-directed blows the victory will be
ours. On February 3 a large delegation of ladies,
representing the Suffrage Association of Missouri, visited
Jefferson City for the purpose of laying before the
legislature a large and influentially signed petition,
asking the ballot for women; and we were gratified to see
the great respect and deference shown to the women of
Missouri by the wisest and best of her legislators in their
respectful and cordial reception of the delegates. Both
Houses adjourned, and gave the use of the house for the
afternoon, when eloquent addresses were made by Mrs. J.G.
Phelps of Springfield, Dr. Ada Greunan of St. Louis, and the
future orator of Missouri, Miss Phoebe Couzins, whose able
and effective address the press has given in full. Of the
brave men who stood up for us, it is more difficult to
speak. To give a list would be impossible; for every name
would require a eulogy too lengthy for the pages of _The
Revolution_. We will, therefore, record them on the tablets
of our memory with a hand so firm that they shall stand out
brightly till time shall be no more. Of the small majorit