Excerpt from Liberty and Labor: An Address by Hon. William McKinley, Governor of Ohio, at Chicago, July 4, 1895 What security can thee give? My word and my honor, replied Morris. Robert, thou 'shalt have it, was the prompt reply. Equally as useful and perhaps as influential as most of the members was the efficient Secretary of the Continental Con gress, Charles Thompson, who for fifteen years was the faith ful recorder of all its proceedings, and who both witnessed and directed the signing of the Declaration. To him we are in debted, perhaps more than to any other, for the enrollment and preservation of the historic parchment itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.