He could not care for the children, probably had no wish to have them near him, but he took them back to South Carolina, and _gave_ them to his parents, made a present of a woman's flesh and blood and heart to people who hated her and whom she hated in return.
Under the laws of South Carolina, under the printed statutes, young Tillman had a perfect right to do this thing, and his father, a United States Senator, upheld him in his act.

Young Mrs.Tillman, however, showed so little respect for the statutes that she sued her husband and his parents to recover her babies.

The judge before whom the suit was brought was in a dilemma.

There was the law--but also there was justice and common sense.

To the everlasting honor of that South Carolina judge, justice and common sense triumphed, and he ruled that _the law was unconstitutional._ There are other hardships in this law denying to mothers the right of co-guardianship of their children.