Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
meeting in Botetourt.
Amsterdam, Botetourt Co., Va., December 4th, 1860.
Politics are running high in this county, I assure you. There was a great military gathering in Fincastle of volunteer companies on Saturday last, both from this county and Montgomery.
A very abundant barbecue was served up in a large upper room of the Court-House, attended by a large number of ladies Quite a number of Union, and several disunion speeches were made by the young officers and other hot bloods, I am sorry to say, the secession spirit is on the increase, still there is an overwhelming majority in the county for the Union, among that number we include a large proportion of the Breckinridge men. It was an interesting, but affecting sight, to see so many fine-looking young men in uniform, all armed and equipped for fighting.
It made us feel as if the hour of conflict had almost come; and one of the speakers said ‘if old Abe did come, he would fight him from the mountain to the seaboard.’ 