A fresh start.
1838. How the Government had taken a new departure, with the British form of government as its model, he had already attempted to show.—Mr. Brown of North Carolina in the U.S. Senate, Feb. 23: Cong. Globe, p. 164, App.
1839. My aim is fixed. It is … to take a fresh start, a new departure, on the States Rights Republican tack, as was intended by the framers of the constitution.—John C. Calhoun, ‘Works’ (1874), iii. 399. (N.E.D.)
1840. How is this voluntary bankrupt to begin life again? How is he to take a new departure?—Mr. Hubbard of New Hampshire, U.S. Senate: Cong. Globe, p. 486, App.
