Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
meeting in Lexington.
Lexington, Va., Jan. 8th, 1861.
At an adjourned meeting of the citizens of Rockbridge county, held in the Court-House, yesterday, to take into consideration the present alarming state of affairs in our country, the resolutions which were prepared by a committee and offered at a previous meeting were again presented by the chairman of the committee.
Still, other amendments and a set of resolutions were offered, and some ten or a dozen speeches were made; but, without taking a vote upon any resolution, the meeting adjourned amidst the wildest excitement ever witnessed at any meeting of the citizens of this county.
With cheers and huzzas, groans and hisses, for South Carolina, the Union and the Old Dominion, all mixed up in the most perfect confusion, accompanied with the tossing up of hats and the waving of handkerchiefs, no such scene ever disgraced any assemblage of Rockbridge people.
No personal altercations occurred.
On the contrary, good feeling, for the most part, seemed to prevail.
But each man had his own way of "saving the Union," or dissolving it, (for there were open disunionists in the meeting,) and no compromise would be listened to. The meeting was very large, and would compare favorably for intelligence and respectability with any meeting ever held in the county.
Not wishing to misrepresent any of the speakers on the occasion, I refrain from stating their positions, or even giving their names.Lex. 