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Excerpt from The Southern Planter, Vol. 19: Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, and the Household Arts; December, 1859 Who, unless an impressed English sailor, can be more a wretched and even a personal slave, than a Prussian soldier? Yet to this terrible servitude every Prussian subject is bound for fourteen years, if so long needed hythe government, at any time between the ages of twenty and fifty years. And though the duration and hardships of legal military service may be less in the other countries of Continental Europe, yet throughout, all men of the lower classes are subject to sufler this addition to the rigor and wretchedness of their otherwise ordinary condition of slavery to want, hunger and misery. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.