1868 — Austin Friends of Female Suffrage, prior to a vote on female suffrage at the Texas Constitutional Convention, Austin TX

. . . may not your mothers, your wives, your sisters, your daughters, the women of America, have a voice in making the laws and selecting the rulers to who she owes, and to whom she renders the most implicit reverence and faithful obedience?

Source: “Tunstall, Martha Goodwin,” by Barbara Mulvihill, Handbook of Texas Online, Texas State Historical Association.