women's rights movement had greatly reduced its activity during the Civil War (1861−1865) because its leaders wanted to apply their energy to the fight against slavery. After the war, leaders of the abolitionist movement pressured them to continue to delay their campaign for women's suffrage until suffrage for black males had been achieved. Stanton and Anthony felt their movement was being marginalized. Later they said, "Our liberal men counseled us to silence during the war, and we were silent on our own wrongs; they counseled us again to silence in Kansas and New York, lest we should defeat 'negro suffrage,' and threatened if we were not, we might fight the battle alone. We chose the latter, and were defeated. But standing alone we learned our power... woman must lead the way to her own enfranchisement." It was becoming difficult for Stanton and Anthony, however, to make their voices heard. The abolitionist press, which had traditionally been the most dependable provider of news coverage for the women's rights movement, was no longer willing to play that role for their wing of the movement. Other major periodicals associated with the radical social reform movements had either become more conservative or had quit publishing or soon would. Little help could be expected from women's rights periodicals because so few remained. The mainstream press had begun to treat the women's movement as old news after more than a decade of treating it as a novelty worthy of news coverage. Stanton and Pillsbury editorship Establishing the newspaper Defying pressure to sever their relationship with Train, Stanton and Anthony instead made a deal with him to establish a weekly newspaper that they would operate with his financial backing, which he indicated could be as much as $100,000. Train and his associate David Melliss would have space to express their views, but otherwise Stanton and Anthony would be free to run the paper in the interests of women. Plans were quickly made plans for a national newspaper with a circulation goal that would make it as large as a major New York daily. Anthony hoped to grow it eventually into a daily paper with its own printing press, all owned and operated by women. [[File:Printing House Square, New York City.png|thumb|right| Printing House Square in Manhattan in 1868, showing the sign for The Revolutions office at 37 Park Row at the far right below The World and above