DiLorenzo didn't manufacture any evidence. You Jaffa sycophants just have to get it through your heads. Lincoln was one of the worst Presidents in our nations history. Even the National Review couldn't get anyone to really defend the bum.
As for Lincoln, he did consider himself the heir to Henry Clay's American system. Lincoln eulogized in 1852 as "the beau ideal of a statesman" and the great parent of Whig Principles. "During my whole political life," Lincoln stated, I have loved and revered [Clay] as a teacher and leader.
Read Robert W. Johannsen biography of Lincoln.