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The Daily Dispatch: August 11, 1862., [Electronic resource], Later from the North. (search)
War. The "Irrepressible conflict" in New York — riot between whites and Blacks. In Brooklyn, N. Y., on the 4th inst., a serious riot occurred between a number of Irish laborers and the negro workmen in the tobacco factories. The negroes had been very insolent for several days. The Herald says: On Saturday last hostilities assumed the first practical shape. On the afternoon of that day one of the negroes employed in Lorillard's tobacco factory was standing in the doorway of Grady's liquor store, on the opposite corner of the street, when a white man, who wanted to pass in, asked him quietly to get out of the way. The negro said he would not, as he had as good a right there as "any other man." The white man again asked the negro to step one side, which the latter gruffly refused to do, upon which the former kicked him out of his way. On seeing this, another colored man ran across from Lorillard's with a knife in his hand to stab the white man, but was prevented from d