... at one time planned, when he felt himself more in command of his bodily forces, to attend the World's Antislavery Convention at London (June, 1840), but being cautioned by the well-known physician, Dr. Henry I. Bowditch , he forebore to take the risk, his heart being at that period the point of danger. Of the later tests which came to abolitionists and sometimes separated them into opposing ranks, little need be ...