Daily National Intelligencer

VERY FEW WORDS ON AN INTERESTING SUBJECT.

We have heard some indistinct suggestions buzzed abroad of a design to endeavor, in consequence of the recent events, to remove the seat of government, temporarily or permanently, from this place. We cannot find language to express our abhorrence and astonishment at the suggestion of a permanent removal of the seat of government. Besides being a violation of the constitution establishing a permanent seat of government, it would be injustice so great to the people of this district, to those who have enriched the public offices with population and laid out fortunes in the purchase of property in and about the city, as Congress cannot, dare not sanction. There is besides something of cruelty in the idea of robbing the citizens of their all, because they have already greatly suffered by the incursion of the enemy. We say boldly, and we say it more freely because we have little personal interest in property here, that such a measure as we have alluded to, would be a treacherous breach of the faith of the nation, pledged by a solemn law enacted under a constitutional provision. A temporary removal would be scarcely less objectionable. It would be kissing the rod an enemy has wielded; it would be deserting the seat of government at the dictation of an enemy! We will only add at present an observation substantially made on the subject by a gallant officer, who has on a late occasion immortalized his name and exalted the American character by his unexampled intrepidity and matchless spirit. "What!" said he, "desert the Capitol? Let Congress rather cover it with canvass and sit in its ruins, than abandon it at this moment!" The sentiment is worthy of the hero who uttered it.