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Aug 16, 2020 Jannyp Aug 12, 2020 vant May 05, 2020 SusanE May 05, 2020 SusanE May 04, 2020 SusanE May 04, 2020 SusanE Mar 18, 2020 Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections	SC636_5_1 Extract But if attachment to Kentucky is a crime I am indeed deeply criminal. Yes fellow citizens with pride I acknow- ledge that gratitude to that state forms part of my nature, it is entwined in my very being & I shall only cease to feel it when I cease to exist. But is gratitude to Kentucky incompatible with duty & fidelity to Ohio? Are they not sisters of the same family possessing the same interests & united in the same destinies? Who can be the friend of the one & the foe of the other? If I did not feel & acknowledge these sentiments of Gratitude after the obligations I have received from Kentucky, I should not only be un- worthy fellow citizens of your confidence but unworthy to live. But they have never produced any feelings of disrespect towards the people of Ohio. If a word has ever droped from my tongue or my pen which could be tortured to bear that construction I can say with truth that it did not accord with the sentiments of my heart (If you sent this to the press) copy this [Reference note Wm H. Harrison to [??? Thos Bodley, n.d.]	SC636_5_1 Extract But if attachment to Kentucky is a crime I am indeed deeply criminal. Yes fellow citizens with pride I acknow- ledge that gratitude to that state forms part of my nature, it is entwined in my very being & I shall only cease to feel it when I cease to exist. But is gratitude to Kentucky incompatible with duty & fidelity to Ohio? Are they not sisters of the same family possessing the same interests & united in the same destinies? Who can be the friend of the one & the foe of the other? If I did not feel & acknowledge these sentiments of Gratitude after the obligations I have received from Kentucky, I should not only be un- worthy fellow citizens of your confidence but unworthy to live. But they have never produced any feelings of disrespect towards the people of Ohio. If a word has ever droped from my tongue or my pen which could be tortured to bear that construction I can say with truth that it did not accord with the sentiments of my heart (If you sent this to the press) copy this