let-alone policy

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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

On this day, however, Mr.     Bright, Lord Granville, and Mr. Gladstone stood alone against the rest     of the Cabinet in supporting a let-alone policy.'

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius

Who is so devout a believer in free speech and free trade and the let-alone policy in government, and the coming of the Millennium by steam?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 by Various

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 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