Lincoln was a statist in many ways. Many of the Whigs were.
The Whigs were not statists in the sense we mean it now. They believed that government’s role in the economy was to create the conditions that lead to economic growth and the creation of wealth. Today’s Statists see government’s role as taking from the productive and giving to the unproductive. Quite different from the Whigs, who were interested in helping the productive be more productive. When looking at Federalist-Republican, or Whig-Democrat, remember all of them would be in the GOP today.