Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-09-29
DR.. JoURDAN.
His Death, Burial and Characteristics.
pills Recognizes a Great Calamity.

There was never an assemblage more
deeply grieved, or one whose faces beto-
kened regret more eloquentiy, than that
which was gathered Tuesday afternoon
ABOUT theg grave of DR.. Jourdan. Far from
the home of his earlier years, without a
kinsman to render the last sad services
TO the dead, among strangers who
had only begun to appreciate his
extraordinary social and intellectual
worth, DR.. Jourdan died and was
buried. Many German gentlemen
of the city and attaches of the city press
accompanied the funeral cortege to Elm
wood. There a German club chanted a
requiem, a priest pronouncedFan eulo-
GUM, and the body was deposited in the
midst of the graves of Confederate SOL
ciers. DIR. Jourdan himself was one of
these, and since we could not give him q
burial In the village which was his
childhood's home, his spirit could not
complain that his body rePoses among
men, like himself, the most generous and
brave of our race. 1t is a worthy resting
place for the worthy gentleman, whose
personal qualities won troops of friends,
ever as his learning and taste command
the unmiXed admiration of his German
fellow countrymen. A biographical
sketch of DIR. Jourdan, who was an eieUee
of the University of jena, and of a ia
nous school of surgeons and physicians,
Will ACIOdAbCA dBp0cls 4hC ucdNA Va 6uCA
a man Is no ordinary calamity. He
thought accurately and justly, and had
Invested himself thoroughly of those
p~rejudices against Southern people with
which most Europeans are imbued by
Northern newspapers, those of the South
having no access to European pOpula-
tions. If DR.. Jourdan had lived he would
have fastened upon Southern German
character and modes OF thinking the
indelible impress of his own convictions.
His opinions would have been steadily
popularized and adopted; and though he
differed in his Thorough devotion to De-
mocracy from many of those with whom
he was associated, he concilisted and con
WINGED and won troops of friends and con-
verts to his theories of American society
and government. He believed in the alb
solute necessity for local and municipal
freedom, and was bitterly opposed to CEN
trsiizstion. He objected, not to strong
alliances among States, but to despotic
authority vested in the central power.
Living I'M Germany to-day, much as he
loved "faderland' and cherished its hal
lowed memories, he would share the for
tunes ofthose who protest most vehement
" against the utter obliterstion of State
boundary lines, a process to which King
William subjects Germany, even as Grant
and the Congress do the United States.
Not only would this learned gentleman
have corrected false opinions entertained
of US everywhere-not only would he
have succeeded in removing prejudices
our people, for his productions
were freely copied in European papers,
but he would have drawn to this city vast
numbers of his countrymen. There was
therefore a practical reason for the inter
est manifested by our people in the sad
incidents OF Tuesday last. We can hardly
a fit successor to DIR. Jourdan. We
know no such German scholar, and no
such ~liberaliZed German writer and
thinker, and none of us have known a
purer, more generous or worthier
gentleman and friend than DIR. Jourdan.