It is not designed as a vehicle of prejudice or gratitude, but of thought, opinion.

When the Negro was first given the ballot he used it to convey expression of love and gratitude to the North, while it bore to the South a message of hate and revenge.

No Negro, on pain of being ostracised or probably murdered, was allowed to exercise the ballot in any other way than that just mentioned.

They voted in a mass, according to the dictates of love and hate.
"The ballot was never designed for such a purpose.

The white man snatched the ballot from the Negro.