Their old enemy.
The new Federal levies are already suffering from diseases, attributable to the want of tents. A Massachusetts regiment, it is said, has been already reduced by this cause to less than half its original numbers. If the Federal Government is unable to provide the numbers of new recruits already raised with sufficient accommodations, it will find its hands full should it succeed in getting all the men it has called for to the field. Disease is an enemy which has already decimated its ranks, and it need expect no more quarter from this Southern auxiliary in the future than the past. The Southern climate is death to the Northern soldier. We have a whole host of diseases waiting to gobble them up, and it requires no conscription act to bring our allies to the field. The fevers of summer, and the pneumonia of winter, will meet the invaders at every town, and make them pay the penalty of their crimes.
