From all of us here at Vendors Tech, a Happy Thanksgiving to our many loyal and appreciated customers and friends! We would like to publicly thank Almighty God for the bountiful and blessed year He has bestowed upon all of us here, and upon each of you. We hope that we have been able to bless those we have served over the past year, and we look forward to making the most of the opportunity to do so again in the year to come.

Each year, we post as part of our Thanksgiving note, a past US Presidential Proclamation of Thanksgiving.  President Andrew Johnson recognized the role God played in protecting, sustaining, and raising up this nation.  We hope all of its citizens today will remember and acknowledge the same fact this year, and reflect on and rejoice in all their many God bestowed blessings this Thanksgiving!

Done at the city of Washington, this 8th day of October, A.D. 1866, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-first.

By the President of the United States:  Andrew Johnson

A Proclamation:

Almighty God, our Heavenly Father, has been pleased to vouchsafe to us as a people another year of that national life which is an indispensable condition of peace, security, and progress. That year has, moreover, been crowned with many peculiar blessings.

The civil war that so recently closed among us has not been anywhere reopened; foreign intervention has ceased to excite alarm or apprehension; intrusive pestilence has been benignly mitigated; domestic tranquillity has improved, sentiments of conciliation have largely prevailed, and affections of loyalty and patriotism have been widely renewed; our fields have yielded quite abundantly, our mining industry has been richly rewarded, and we have been allowed to extend our railroad system far into the interior recesses of the country, while our commerce has resumed its customary activity in foreign seas.

These great national blessings demand a national acknowledgment. Now, therefore, I, Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, do hereby recommend that Thursday, the 29th day of November next, be set apart and be observed everywhere in the several States and Territories of the United States by the people thereof as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, with due remembrance that "in His temple doth every man speak of His honor." I recommend also that on the same solemn occasion they do humbly and devoutly implore Him to grant to our national councils and to our whole people that divine wisdom which alone can lead any nation into the ways of all good.

In offering these national thanksgivings, praises, and supplications we have the divine assurance that "the Lord remaineth a king forever; them that are meek shall He guide in judgment and such as are gentle shall He learn His way; the Lord shall give strength to His people, and the Lord shall give to His people the blessing of peace."

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

ANDREW JOHNSON, President

WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State.