A Defence in Abatement of Judgment for an Alleged Libel in the Story Entitled "Inquire at Deacon Giles' Distillery." Addressed to the Hon. Chief Justice Shaw, at the session of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Held in Salem, Dec. 4, 1835 [wrapper title; caption title:] A Defence, Addressed to the Hon. Chief Justice Shaw.
Salem [Mass.]: John W. Archer, 1836. Original printed blue wrappers (stitching renewed), 7.5 x 4.5 inches, 28 pages. The reformer Cheever had been appointed the pastor of Howard Street Congregational Church in Salem in 1833, and "two years later he attained national prominence with his enormously popular temperance tract, Enquire..... More