 "In this State, reconstruction has perfected itself and done its worst.It has organized a government which is as complete a closed corporation as may be found; it has placed the black man over the white as the agent and prime-move of domination; it has constructed a system of machinery by which all free guarantees, privileges and opportunities are removed from the people...The impossibility of casting a free vote in Tennessee short of a revolutionary movement ... is an undoubted fact."