Songlist: Caroling, Caroling Long Ago, O Hearken Ye, Nigh Bethlehem, All On A Christmas Morning, We'll Dress The House, Ah, Bleak And Chill Wintry Wind, Christmas Cometh Caroling, Some Children See Him, Jesu Parvule, Bright, Bright, The Holly Berries, The Star Carol, Carol Of The Mother, What Are The Signs, Christ In The Stranger's Guise, Come, Dear Children 6898b | Sheet Music | $6.95 | TTBB | A Cappella | | Choral Christmas Arrangements | Alfred BurtĪlfred Burt and Jimmy Joyce Singers : This Is Christmas Songbook Songlist: Caroling, Caroling Long Ago, O Hearken Ye, Nigh Bethlehem, All On A Christmas Morning, We'll Dress The House, Ah, Bleak And Chill Wintry Wind, Christmas Cometh Caroling, Some Children See Him, Jesu Parvule, Bright, Bright, The Holly Berries, The Star Carol, Carol Of The Mother, What Are The Signs, Christ In The Stranger's Guise, Come, Dear Children 6899b | Sheet Music | $6.95 | SSA | A Cappella | | Choral Christmas Arrangements | Alfred Burt Songlist: Caroling, Caroling Long Ago, O Hearken Ye, Nigh Bethlehem, All On A Christmas Morning, We'll Dress The House, Ah, Bleak And Chill Wintry Wind, Christmas Cometh Caroling, Some Children See Him, Jesu Parvule, Bright, Bright, The Holly Berries, The Star Carol, Carol Of The Mother, What Are The Signs, Christ In The Stranger's Guise, Come, Dear Children 6897b | Sheet Music | $6.95 | SATB | A Cappella | | Choral Christmas Arrangements | Alfred Burt The carols within each set were selected to provide a variety of sound and facility of transition from one carol to the next so that each set may be performed as a program group The fifteen carols as published are arranged in three sets. Burt, his composer son, Alfred and friend-of-the-family Whila Hutson for many years these three collaborated on the creation of original carols, which were then sent to friends as Christmas cards. With other records, the volume containing the Emancipation Proclamation was transferred in 1936 from the Department of State to the National Archives of the United States.Review: These delightful carols are the result of a tradition begun by the Reverend Bates G. Written in red ink on the upper right-hand corner of this large sheet is the number of the Proclamation, 95, given to it by the Department of State long after it was signed. When it was prepared for binding, it was reinforced with strips along the center folds and then mounted on a still larger sheet of heavy paper. The document was bound with other proclamations in a large volume preserved for many years by the Department of State. Most of the ribbon remains parts of the seal are still decipherable, but other parts have worn off. With the text covering five pages the document was originally tied with narrow red and blue ribbons, which were attached to the signature page by a wafered impression of the seal of the United States. The original of the Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, is in the National Archives in Washington, DC. As a milestone along the road to slavery's final destruction, the Emancipation Proclamation has assumed a place among the great documents of human freedom. It added moral force to the Union cause and strengthened the Union both militarily and politically. The Emancipation Proclamation confirmed their insistence that the war for the Union must become a war for freedom. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.įrom the first days of the Civil War, slaves had acted to secure their own liberty. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Most important, the freedom it promised depended upon Union (United States) military victory.Īlthough the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war.
It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy (the Southern secessionist states) that had already come under Northern control. It applied only to states that had seceded from the United States, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."ĭespite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The Emancipation Proclamation (page 1) Record Group 11 General Records of the United States