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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies, 1864. (search)
ugh Heaven only knows how much of darkness and doubt, and scepticism almost. But I am quite certain that we are journeying now upon the same track,β€”β€” hundreds of miles ahead and yet wonderfully near me too.β€”β€”is Great Heart, I think, who has come back to show me the way. . . . . We must remember the beautiful saying of Massillon: On n'est pas digne d'aimer la verite quand on peut aimer quelque chose plus qu'elle. Fitzhugh Birney. First Lieutenant 23d Penn. Vols. (Infantry), November 29, 1861; Captain and A. A. G. (U. S. Vols.), August I, 1862; Major, September 15, 1863; died at Washington, D. C., June 17, 1864, of disease contracted in the service. Fitzhugh Birney was the youngest son of James G. Birney, the distinguished Kentuckian, who, born and bred a slaveholder, emancipated his slaves in 1835, and, in the distribution of his father's estate, took the negroes for his portion, that he might set them also free. When a young man he had been Attorney-General of Alabam