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_Noscitur a sociis_.

High crimes and misdemeanors! so high that they belong in this company with _treason_ and _bribery_." The position of Judge Curtis was fortified by the fact that in the five cases of Impeachment trial before the President was accused--the cases of Blount, of Pickering, of Chase, of Peck, and of Humphries--the charges preferred by the House involved criminality.
Outside of professional opinion there was supposed to be a popular demand, so far as the Republican party represented the people, for the President's conviction--a demand found to be based, when analyzed, upon other acts of the President than those for which he was arraigned in the Articles of Impeachment.

The people in this respect followed precisely in the line of their Representatives.