let-'em-alone

Updated: June 28, 2025

Well might Yancey and his followers receive with a shout of joy the "Freeport Doctrine," as Douglas's supreme evasion was called. Should Southerners trust any longer the man who had evolved from the principle of let-'em-alone to the principle of double-dealing? However, the Southerners were far from controlling the situation.

Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson - Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North

Both were tried Democrats of the old style, "let-'em-alone" sort; and both had supported the President in his Kansas policy. But each, like every other member of his party, was being forced by circumstances to make his choice among the three inevitable courses, and each chose the Northern side.

Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson - Abraham Lincoln and the Union; a chronicle of the embattled North