58 and 73; Moore, _Notes on Slavery in Mass._, p.

71.] [Footnote 3: Adams, _Works of John Adams_, vol.x., p.

315; Moore, _Notes on Slavery in Mass._, p.

71.] So effective was the attack on the institution of slavery and its attendant evils that interest in the question leaped the boundaries of religious organizations and became the concern of fair-minded men throughout the country.

Not only did Northern men of the type of John Adams and James Otis express their opposition to this tyranny of men's bodies and minds, but Laurens, Henry, Wythe, Mason, and Washington pointed out the injustice of such a policy.