Quite so. In that era practically nobody intended to establish a democracy in terms we understand it now. Universal suffrage was not on the table. What was on the table was the abolition of government by birth right and divine rule, and theocracy that served as their foundattion. Revolutions were fought out between monarchs and aristocrats on one side and the urban bourgeoisie and rural property owners (which included slave owners in the US) on the other. In addition to excluding women, there were property requirements. In other words, democracy, in so far as the word was used, was meant to be limited to owners of lands and buildings. This was the case during the US revolution in 1775, the French revolution in 1789, the European upheavals in the 1830s and the many European revolutions (all of which failed) in 1848/9.
In short, no revolution was attempted with what we now regard as democracy in mind until the short-lived Paris Commune in 1871.