The distillery of Deacon Giles seen as the work of the Devil. Coloured wood-engraving after G. B. Cheever, ca. 1835.

"Cheever joined the temperance reform movement in 1833; two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, 'Enquire at Amos Giles' distillery'. The essay, cast in the form of a dream, was a thinly disguised portrayal of John Stone, a well-liked Unitarian deacon in Salem (Mass.) who owned a distillery. Cheever’s neighbors were outraged by his slander: he received a public horsewhipping, was sued and convicted for libel, and was sentenced to thirty days in jail. He immediately became a cause celebre among the nation's temperance reformers and abolitionists….and a popular reform hero"--American national biography