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This is destined to be a very wealthy portion of the United States, and, if to this we can add the most temperate, nothing will prevent our rising, and becoming a valuable acquisition to the union. Much power now lies in your hands, and, I sincerely hope, we may commence our new career with a law in our statute books, prohibiting the manufacture and sale of ardent spirits in Oregon territory.

— George Abernethy, 1849, Legislative Message

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Abernethy, George (1849). "Governor George Abernethy Legislative Message, 1849". Oregon State Archives. Oregon Secretary of State. Retrieved 2012-02-16.