In his temperance speech in 1842 he sees the spirit of temperance like the conqueror in the Revelation going forth "conquering and to conquer," He sees the drunkard reclaimed, and, like the man in the gospel, "clothed and in his right mind"; then, describing the reclaimed, "out of their abundant hearts their tongues give utterance." Then he speaks of the unpardonable sin for the drunkard as unknown: "As in Christianity it is taught, 'while the lamp holds out to burn the vilest sinner may return.'" Then he refers to the Scriptures and says: "He ever seems to have gone forth like the Egyptian angel of death, commissioned to slay, if not the first, the fairest born of every family." Then he takes us over to the prophet: "Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live." He was very fond of a poem called "Adam and Eve's Wedding Song": "When Adam was created He dwelt in Eden's shade. As Moses has recorded. And soon a bride was made." Some thought that Lincoln was its author, but he said: "I am not the author. I would give all I am worth, and go in debt, to be able to write so fine a piece." In speaking of the tariff he said: "In the early days of our race the Almighty said to the first of our race, 'In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread.'" In 1848, when President Polk sent a message to Congress stating that Mexico "had shed American blood upon American soil," Lincoln made a long speech against war with Mexico, and recalled the death of Abel thus: "That he [President Polk] is deeply conscious of being in the wrong; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to heaven against him." In Lincoln's eulogy on Henry Clay he brings the Book of God before the people: "Pharaoh's country was cursed with plagues and his hosts were lost in the Red Sea for striving to retain a captive people who had already served them more than four hundred years. May this disaster never befall us!"