Mr. DIXON. Yes, it is worth reading: Who can say that a generation must not elapse before the rebel communities have beensofarchanized as to become safe associatesin a common governmentnt? Plainly, this cannot be done at.once. Wol lin ton exclaimed at Waterloo. Would that night or llucher had comul Time alone was a substitute for a powerful all. It was uiore through time than biittle that Laendee was chaned into loyalty. Time, therefore. we must have. hrough time all other guarantees may be obtained; but 2 itself is a guarantee.” Is that indefinite in point of time? I do not think all this can he accom pllSlletl short of a generation. I desire while that process is gomg on, while that generation is growing up, that the people of this country shall be reunited, that they shall be represented by loyal men from loyal States and districts in this body and in the other House. while the Senatoris finishing the remainder of his useful career on earth in bringing that great work to accomplishment. Its completion Will bring. him tomore than the allotted term of human hfo. vided it is Is not this indefinite? But, sir, it is said— the Senfrom Ohio will excuse me for not yet coming to the policy of the President—that the Presidents recent speech is an obstacle in the way of the Presidents policy. The Senfrom Ohio [Mr. SHERMAN] saw fit to bring before this body a speech recently madb by the President. of the U.S or I should not myself have alluded to it. I have but a few words to say upon it. I am not here either to justify or condemn it. There are certain matters of public policy which when avowed by the President interest me somewhat deeply. Peculiar modes of expression do not very much interest me, I confess. Whether he states his views in a speech from the White House or in a message is to me somewhat immaterial. What he says is mate rial upon great questions of public policy. We know that when General Washington was POTUS he introduced, aswas complained in those da s, a somewhat regal and imperial mode of conacting the public business. It was as difficult to get accessto him as to a monarch. When Mr. Lincoln came into the eXecutive chair he was as accessible as he was in his office at Springfield. General Wash ington had one mode oftransactin public business; Mr. Lincoln had another. am not here to condemn or to justify either of those modes. I may have my references. Possiblyif Icould express my Wis,it would be that the Washingtoninn mode was in some respects revived and renewed. But does anybody supppose that great questions of public policy in the minds of the people are to. e affected for a single instant by a question of taste? Does that affect the question of policy? It is not for us to inquire what is the Presidents mode of life or action, pro ure and virtuous. That we have a right to as, and that is all we have a right to as. Great questions of policy we have a right to consider, and the people of this whole country are looking with eager eyes 11 on the policy of the President, not upon his modes of express in this policy. I o suppose that at this time, when the ocean of public opinion is heaving in multitudine us waves, the people of this country are to avert their gaze fpor a single moment from the question Of policy in order that they may consider the question whether a particular mode of expression or action is in good taste or not, is to suppose what I think does not exist. What the people ask is, what is the policy of the administration? and Iam now prepared to tell the Senfrom Ohio what I think that policy is.