let-alone policy

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The let-alone policy toward the South, to which Grant was prompted both by his virtues and his limitations, would not on the whole have been unacceptable to the mass of the Southern whites.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

We have the let-alone policy, in puris naturalibus, and everything is truly let alone, but the property of the master.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

The second was "the let-alone policy, which would merely refuse them representation until they had adopted the constitutional amendments."

From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by Barnes, William Horatio

In general, the let-alone policy of the last twenty-eight years is likely to continue, and there is every reason why it should.

From The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by Merriam, George Spring

Accordingly, the policy which I advocate is not the let-alone policy.

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by Beers, R. W.