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“As regards the future, what if a day should come when Ireland would be clamouring for independence complete and thorough from Great Britain? … What side would we take then? (A voice : ‘Germany!’ ) I bind no man to my opinions. We owe to England allegiance, loyalty, and gratitude; but if England cast us off, then I reserve the right, as a betrayed man, to say: ‘I shall act as I have a right to act. I shall sing no longer “God Save the King” ’ … I say here solemnly that the day England casts us off and despises our loyalty and allegiance, that day I will say: ‘England, I will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh’.” James Chambers K.C., M.P., South Belfast, May 23 1913.

Parliamentary information

In the January 1910 election campaign Sloan was defeated by James Chambers, who polled 5,772 votes to Sloan's 3,553. He stood again in the December 1910 election, opening his campaign with a lecture 'Are the Principles of the Reformation being maintained ?', but was defeated again.